The gown beat on ninety seven one freak. A lot of nb W NBA
talking here, a lot of a lot of w NBA Google imaging in here.
I'm a fan of all of all these players coming in the league.
You are. I'm wishing the best for Cameron Brink Stanford, the second pick.
That picture of her, how told is she compared to? Kevin says
criminally short? It actually says Cameron Brink hot. I meant height when I
was image searching six' four and she's definitely wearing some heels in that photo.
Yeah, she's got a lot of apps, Kevin. That's what I
was saying. Maybe we should have taken Angel Reese. She's the second most
marketable player in that thing, and she's sitting there. I was really hoping
to Ohio State. She's some shooter. She's a guard. We got all
guards. That's draft. Let's go wings, Let's go wings. No caveo.
Today he is beginning the adventure Oh a lifetime. He's headed to Italy.
We are tracking his flight. They're arriving in one hour, in fifteen
minutes. He took off three and a half hours late. We are moments
away from them crossing over land, meaning that his greatest fears are going to
be absolved in mere moments, as he will not plummet into the Atlantic Ocean.
He will soon plummet onto the plains of Spain, which I guess is
preferred to him. I don't know how it works, but he's about to
cross land. They land in just over an hour, and his whole trip
is kind of screwed from a three and a half hour delay. But because
he's gonna miss the Barcelona Connector, it's going to screw up his golf outing,
which I know he was really excited about playing Spanish golf or Italian golf.
He may eliminate the Lake Como portion of his trip, which that's supposed
to be the very psyched for him to enjoy. But Kevio's off until next
Thursday. It's you and I today, you and I tomorrow. We are
off Friday and Monday, and then it'll just be you and I Tuesday,
Wednesday next week and Cavo back on Thursday. JJ is gonna be with us
the whole time, so we'll hold this thing together. One thing JJ really
likes is movies, and you've seen a couple, Danny I did I'm on
a new show. Let's kick a few around here in lights, camera,
a holes, the hot flicks. I have one little slab of movie news
before we get to the reviews, because it does have been watching the new
stuff intrigued by the reboot of The Naked Gun, right, Yeah, I
think this could work, I hope. So we haven't seen any of the
Zucker Brothers reboots. Yeah, they haven't really done that, Like they haven't
remade an Airplane or a Naked Gun or because there's that's a unique brand of
comedy. Well, you know, the black filmmaker has embraced it a little
bit with kind of scary movie and sort of that slapstick, real wacky,
over the top style, and I think they've been the only ones to kind
of keep it alive for a while. You're right, we haven't had that
just real absurd, silly, way useless comedy. Yeah, but I love
Airplane and Naked Gun and they apparently are going to re up. And who
have they cast in this? Okay, well we knew the lead, so
no more Leslie Nielsen, rest in power, Young King. We have Liam
Neeson taking over as Lieutenant Frank Drebbens. That's an odd choice. Dude I've
seen haven't seen him do comedy, have we? He has done h self
with Ricky Gervais on Life's Too Short. I believe it was one of the
BBC shows where Could You Raise It? Which was funny as hell with the
little guy. No, I knew this was gonna happen there now keep going
the little English guy Billy Bardy four great guesses. I don't know. Oh,
I want to say it before I look it up. The British dude,
I think he played like, ah fine wise too Short. You'll know
when I say it. It's uh Warwick Davis. Oh yeah, yeah,
okay? And is he Weeman? No, he's not we Man. He's
Warwick Davis. I just gave you his proper name. But there's some outtakes
Liam Neeson and he is the bone driest but really funny. Okay, because
those are massive shoes to fill and also the Robert stat character, those are
massive shoes to fill as well. But who's going to take over for Julie
Haggerty. Yeah. All we have is the announcement that we have the love
interest of Liam Neeson for the upcoming reboot of Naked Gun and it is going
to be well, no, and this would have been a striker, Priscilla,
No, you're all over the place, You're I'm thinking of an airplane.
I'm so sorry, Priscilla Presley. Yeah, and I don't know if
it's a different role or how it is, but the love interest of Liam
Neeson will be Pamela Anderson. Okay, I could see this working. Liam
Neeson's seventy one years old cast as clueless police detective Frank Drevin with pam Anderson
fifty six slated to play his love interest. I did get stuck on airplane.
I want this who's played striker? Yeah? Yeah, So anyway,
I don't I think twenty. I think next year that's supposed to pop and
come out. I am at least curious. Good chance it comes out.
Absolutely sucks whenever you watch it. But you know, for eighties and nineties
boys, that's a fun one. All right, that's a future movie,
current movie. I think you guys have both been rocking a few j It's
JJ on Air is always on top of movies, one of the best movie
reviewers and most reputable inn DFW and we love having her here. How what
are gonna start with? Man, I know you've seen a couple. If
you've seen one, you I want to jump in real quick with this one
because this has been out for a while. It did really well at the
Oscars. I'm gonna play this right now. JJ. This is the score
to the opening scene opening credits of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. Now.
This was nominated for at the Academy Awards Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, and Best Sound. Now it
did win for Best International Feature and it won for Best Sound. The score
is a huge part of why this is the great. Michael Levi a younger
composer that works with a lot of interesting orchestration. It's kind of a he's
a laptop composer, so a lot of these sounds are synthesizers, but it
is integral to creating the tension in which is one of the if not the
most tense movies that I've ever seen. Now. The Zone of Interest is
about a family, a family that the patriarch of the family is a man
named Rudolph hass He is the commandant of Aschwitz, the concentration camp that was
established by the SS in World War Two and they're home is right next to
it. In fact, the wall of a portion of their land which they
are mere feet from, borders the actual concentration camp. Barre, yeah,
razor wire on top. It's a very very high, apparently fifteen to twenty
foot tall, thick, thick cement wall. And on the other side.
You never see what is on the other side, but you hear it,
You see the smoke. They smell the smells. And this is a family
of a man, his wife, what's her name, Hedvig, and their
five children, I believe four or five children that they're raising in this idyllic,
basically beautiful garden. And it's literally a garden. They grow their own
food. They have gorgeous flowers, a greenhouse, a swimming po you can
bring that down to just kind of let it play underneath a swimming pool.
This wonderful, beautiful home. It is day there, and his sole job
is to exterminate prisoners by the thousands. All I knew is it was they
lived adjacent to I didn't know that that was his job with his lovely family.
And this movie really doesn't have the elements of what make a Hollywood movie
enjoyable to the masses. It's essentially a snapshot of life of these people and
how they conduct their lives on a day to day basis in full knowledge of
what's going on on the other side. And I don't want to give away
too many of the key moments in the film, but there is one element
in the film that just thinking about it gives me absolute chills, because to
be able to get to that mindset, to do that job, and to
have your family buy in what's going on on the other side of those walls
is the ultimate case of dehumanization. You have to look at what you're doing
as you're exterminating something that is not human. Is it about his kids knowing
or not knowing? It's not really. It's not that it's a secret.
It's the fact that this is their way of thinking. So to the children,
they're thinking in terms of these are not people that are suffering over there.
They are essentially subhuman. And there is one scene that'll break you up
is when the older brother, the oldest brother is playing and he's a member
of the Hitler Youth. He's got on the full uniform with the silly shorts
and the dumb armband and all that and he's playing with his little brother and
they're in the garden, in the yard, and he chases his little brother
and pushes shoves him into the greenhouse and his brother is yelly, no,
no, no, I don't want to go in there. I don't want
to go in there, and locks him in the greenhouse and sits up front
and watches his little brother and starts making a hissing sound to intimate the gas
of the gas chambers. It's chilling. It's the most it's so incredibly uncomfortable.
It's very in line with the work that Jonathan Glazer does. I'm a
big fan of his. This is only his fourth film. His very first
film was called Sexy Beast, which had Ben Kingsley in it. When he
was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in that film, that came out twenty four
years ago. So this guy has only made four films in twenty four years.
I've seen three of the four and he he's directed two Radiohead videos.
He's done a lot of music video stuff. But his style is very unique.
It relies heavily on it's very surrealistic, but it relies heavily on soundtrack
and sound but you hear it all Man. You hear the screams, you
hear the gunshots, you hear all of that, and it's it's it's a
distant echo, but it's a part of these people's day to day lives.
And there is a scene at the end that kind of leaves it open to
interpretation, very much like a radiohead lyric. I think this guy is a
massive radio fan, by the way, But you don't. You leave the
movie not really having any real resolve. It doesn't really have a big payoff
or anything like that. But it's something that I feel is important, and
it's something that has after seeing it a week ago, has absolutely stuck with
me. Is it great? I think it's I think it's perfect. Yeah,
but it's not what it's if you're expecting a film about World War two
or concentration camps. It ain't about that. It's a snapshot of the life
of a family that has convinced themselves of something that's not real. Jeez.
It's incredible, it's moving, and it's something that it needs to be seen.
And and just like I said, it sticks with you. It's emotional.
Is it a jerker? It's emotional, not in a way where I
didn't ever feel like I was on the verge of tears. But it's very
provoking. It's it's a very provocative film and and and it made me think
a lot, and it didn't make me feel a lot, but not that,
not to that level. Let's move on, though, because two nights
ago I took in a film at a theater and I got to see civil
efing War. Now, JJ, I know you have seen civil war,
yes, yes, And I don't know what you know about this film.
But people that are expecting to go into this and see a big, grand
scale imagination of what civil war would be like if it happened in this country,
my be a little bit disappointed. This is a film about war journalists.
That's what this is about. This is about a group, a small
group of journalists that and they're not even embedded. They're kind of acting on
their own. It's a photographer played by Kirsten Dunst, and she with a
small team of others are basically documenting what's happening in this war. Now.
It apparently happens sometime in the near future, because you see city scapes of
New York and the New World Trade Center is not the tallest building in the
city, although the cars that are in the film are not futuristic at all.
In fact, most of them appear to be from current times or even
before, So you get the idea that maybe auto product this war has been
going on long enough where auto production all but stopped or they had to use
those facilities for other types of war efforts. But I believe the lines are
intentionally blurred on what caused this war, who's the good guys, who's the
bad guys. You contextually can figure that out as the movie goes on,
and in the end you have a pretty good idea of who the good guys
and who are the bad guys. But I think the lines are kind of
intentionally blurred on how this happened and why these certain states are aligned to kind
of not create a template for people to act upon this in the future.
It's a little nebulous in the way that it's presented, because you just don't
know who's fighting on who's fighting for what cause, and their whole mission is
to get to DC because the walls are closing in on the current president,
which is played by Nick Offerman. He's in the movie for a total of
what maybe five minutes and the rest of the film is about these journalists and
then what they have to go through to get to d c H. I
know you saw this as well. JJ. Yeah, all I keep hearing
is the last like half an hour is the craziest thing anyone's ever seen.
And I don't know what that means, and I don't really want to know,
but you'd agree with that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Danny,
I think you know he nailed it. It definitely is. It's following more
of the journalists and you're seeing, you know, kind of what they're seeing
in their eyes, and it's their job to report what's happening in the world.
And yeah, they really blow the lines of you don't know what caused
this, You don't under I mean, you don't know why these states have
a line together to you know, to stand against the US and the White
House and the President. But you're all in, You're you're you're in on
this journey, on this ride with these journalists, and the last thirty minutes
it just ties it all in. But I'm curious of what you thought of
Jesse Plemons. I thought Plemons was great. He's in it for a very
brief amount of time. I heard that he only got booked for that film,
maybe a couple of before they shot his scene. But I thought his
performance was really chilling. And it's just a small part of the overall trajectory,
which is essentially and I read something about this earlier. But when the
camera zooms in on Kirsten Dunce, right, Kirsten Dunst's face in this film,
and she's older now, she's not the young girl that we remember from
twenty years ago. She's right, she looks different, and she looks badass,
and she's got to get some type of recognition for this film because she's
perfect in it. But she looks like someone that has seen everything that this
war has taken a massive toll on. But she also realizes that it's incumbent
upon her to let the let the country know what is really going on,
and it's a responsibility and it's a commitment, and it's just as important as
the people that are fighting the battles what she's doing to let us know what's
truly happening. And that type of journalist, they're not trying to frame anything
to mislead anyone. They're trying to give you a true account. Of what
this devastation is doing to the country. But it's a it's short. It's
like an hour and forty forty five minutes something like that. I was in
and out of there in two hours, including previews, which, by the
way, I sat down when the damn thing was supposed to start at seven
o'clock and previews these days, Mikey guess when the film actually started. Twenty
seven twenty seven minutes of previews and were they kick ass? Though? No,
maybe a couple I was interested in. But man, I'm kind of
dying. You will love this film. Feel like an hour and forty four
I'm not saying it felt long, but it just felt like there was a
lot there. It was Stephen King described it, and it didn't feel it
too much. It didn't feel overwhelming. Steve, Yeah, Stephen King saw
this film and he tweeted about this and his brief review was, this movie
is all muscle and no fat. I disagree with it a little bit because
this movie is not without flaws. Because I did feel there were a couple
of elements in the film that it's like they got the Hollywood virus just a
little bit, where you've got this really interesting story that's being told from a
very organic, raw way, and they use some damn Hollywood tricks to make
it have a little bit of mass appeal, so it's not just this true
hardcore visceral experience, which it doesn't detract from the film at all as an
overall, but it would taken it from like a if I was giving it
a grade. Those elements of Hollywood kind of screw doing what they do.
In my opinion, it took it from what would have been maybe a nine
to about a eight point three eight point four, okay, but it's from
a four and a half dumpling to it. It's for a quarter. Yeah,
it's effing brilliant. I know you said no spoilers, but I assume
the Florida Alliance is on the good side and saves the day at the end.
Probably it's kind of a built spoiler. That was weird because it just
made it seem like they were it's neutral. But yeah, yeah, it's
mainly the Texas California Alliance, which you which look, I'll say this,
it's a very unlikely pairing. Yeah, I don't understand, which makes you
realize that whatever the government, whoever was running the government must have been doing
some really bad stuff for these two states to come together. My guess is
I think they're gonna make the the what's the guy's name, the with the
red glasses who because he look scary, and they're gonna make the gun I
guess the gun guys look bad for the beginning, like these are the nuts
with guns who, you know whatever, And then by the end, I
think you might realize that they were the ones on the right side, fighting
against something that you didn't even expect. Jesse Pleman's scene and experience is kind
of an outlier. I think they did a good job of the kind of
showing you what war can do within you know, your country, because obviously
you know you see him, he's in military gear, but the actions that
are happening, you're like, okay, that's not exactly by the book,
and you know, so it really draws that picture, that narrative of when
a war is happening in country, like people, it's pretty much every man
for themselves. You're gonna do what you're gonna remember you're crazy or whatever the
case is. I want to speak real quickly to the last thirty minutes of
this movie. I'm telling you as far as intense imagined American city battles stuff
that we see in Syria but from CNN and all of the other in the
Middle East crap that's been going on for decades. To imagine that happening in
Washington, d C. It's dude, it is the most intense battle.
Yeah, but for thirty minutes that I have seen since the opening scene of
saving Private Ryan. Jesus right, and I'm not kidding. It's not as
good, but it is hardcore, intense and great that a civil war.
Go see this film out now, all right, top of the next segment,
I want a quick a couple of minutes before Dinga's warning news on Ministry
of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which I know, I thank you for. I got
the title right, JJ saw that last night, and I am definitely curious
about that. When we'll do that right before we get started with Dingo's morning
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